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Bioethics and Medicine
Custodians of the BodyFall 2019 •
Alan Rubenstein on how our organ donation regime strikes the right balance between generosity to the living and respect for the dead
While Bioethics Fiddles
Winter 2019 • Brendan P. Foht on the frivolous games academic ethicists play while baby manufacturing draws near
Human Gene Editing Arrives in America
Reflections on the Instrumentalization of Human Life
July 28, 2017
Toward a More Human Medicine
Spring 2017 • Aaron Rothstein on doctors, parts, and persons
Scientist, Scholar, SoulSpring/Summer 2016 •
Marc D. Guerra on Margaret Edson's play Wit and the temptation to hide from matters of ultimate meaning
Biomedicine and Its Cultural AuthorityWinter 2016 •
Joseph E. Davis on the origins of our "health society" and why holistic medicine doesn't catch on
Gene Editing: New Technology, Old Moral Questions
Winter 2016 • Brendan P. Foht on using CRISPR to help patients and design our descendants
Appendix: State Laws on Human Cloning
Summer 2015
Part Five: Recommendations
Summer 2015
Part Four: Cloning Policy in the United States
Summer 2015Next
Blog Posts
The Embryo DilemmaOctober 6, 2008 •
Los Angeles Times health reporter Shari Roan has a terrific series on "the politics of embryos." (Bonus: One piece quotes The New Atlantis's own Yuval Levin.)
ALSO IN THE LAT: How easy is it to donate embryos to research? Or for adoption? Embryo legislation, state by state.
Six years of frustration and heartbreak. That's how Gina Rathan recalls her attempts to become pregnant.
Finally, she and her husband, Cheddi, conceived a daughter, now 3, through in vitro fertilization. About a year later, she became pregnant with a second child, naturally. Their family was complete.
Then, a year ago, the Fountain Valley couple received a bill reminding them that their infertility journey wasn't quite over. They owed $750 to preserve three frozen embryos they'd created but hadn't used....
Finally, the couple paid for three more years of cryopreservation.
"I think about the embryos every day," Rathan says. "I am their mother. I see them as my own children. They are the DNA from my husband and I. It's something I worry about, especially when the three years is over and I have to make a decision again."
One way or another someone makes money off the dead.September 29, 2008 •
Your humble blogger has a review in the latest issue of the Weekly Standard about Donna Dickenson's chilling exposé, Body Shopping: The Economy Fuelled by Flesh and Blood. In the piece, I discuss some of the more grisly practices of the global trade in human flesh and how we can rein in the worst of the body-snatchers:
Body Shopping describes a science that has become positively vampiric in its insatiable appetite for human tissue and organs, sometimes outright stealing the raw material it needs. A veritable black market in human flesh has been established, with each part individually appraised and priced: "Hand, $350-$850, Brain, $500-$600, Eviscerated torso, $1,100-$1,290." A whole cadaver can fetch up to $20,000. The uses to which this tissue is put are no less gruesome. Bone dust from stolen cadavers might be found in your dental work. The collagen used to plump a starlet's lips is likely derived from the cells of an infant's foreskin. The "secret ingredient" in the various beauty treatments marketed to Russian women? Aborted fetuses from Ukraine.
"One way or another someone makes money off the dead," one proud body snatcher declared, even as he pleaded guilty to over 60 counts of mutilation of human remains, and embezzlement. The entrepreneurial spirit cannot be tamed, it would seem, especially in so lucrative a venture as body shopping.
RELATED: I interviewed Professor Dickenson about her book for Conceptions here.
IVF: The Next 30 Years
July 18, 2008 • Nature magazine's July issue has a special feature on the 30th anniversary of IVF. After discussing the legacy of IVF (subscrip. req'd), Nature asked a group of scientists what the next 30 years of IVF research will look like. Among the predictions:
- Scientists will be able to create sperm and egg cells for anyone. Using sperm and egg cells derived from induced pluripotent stem cells, scientists will end infertility. Newborns and hundred-year-olds could become parents.
- Embryo research will become a "fact of life": "They would become objects and would be used as objects...Maybe 20–30 years from now we'll read in newspapers that someone made 20,000 embryos and studied their development, and we'll decide it's OK."
- IVF for less than $100: Cheap IVF will soon be made available in developing countries.
- Healthy babies will be assured with the use of "genetic cassettes." Scientists will insert the cassettes into embryos to correct for diseases like Huntington's.
- But people will still have sex: "IVF is expensive and uncomfortable. The old-fashioned way is cheaper and more fun and that won't change in 30 years."
- Artificial wombs will change the abortion debate: "If an artificial womb were developed, the government could pass a law that requires people who have a termination of pregnancy to put the fetus into one of these wombs."
- Alert the trial lawyers: There will be litigation over the health of IVF babies. "With the increasing availability of IVF, there will be more emphasis on safety. Not enough is known about the long-term health of the Louise Browns of this world — if there is a problem, it will be unexpected."
ART in the News
IVF is not so easy, fertility coaching, and more
July 2, 2008 •
- Stanford researchers try to improve IVF odds.
- This weekend, the first baby in the U.K. guaranteed not to have the breast cancer gene was born. So where will genetic screening lead? Slashdot debates.
- California wants to pay women for eggs for stem cell research.
- A Minnesota woman tries to conceive her husband's child ... after his death.
- "To anyone who thinks IVF is an easy option, take it from me, it definitely isn't."
- Fertility coaching: Does it work?
- Increased risk of depression after a successful IVF pregnancy.
- Dream baby arrives ... by bus.
- In the U.K., "one egg" IVF strategy launched.
- Alone and pregnant on purpose: Single moms in Canada commiserate.
- Human-pig hybrid embryos given go ahead.
Must-Read PostsMay 27, 2008 •
I'm still recovering from the long holiday weekend, hence the non-existent posting of the last few days. Fortunately, other bloggers were not so lazy. Here are a few must-read posts:
- Jesse Reynolds takes a critical eye to Gordon Brown's stem cell research letter: "Like so many writings advocating cloning-based stem cell research (i.e., somatic cell nuclear transfer), Brown's op-ed drifts to distortion and hyperbole."
- Will Saletan considers Britain's new ART law by the numbers.
- Jennifer Roback Morse looks at how GLBT families and same-sex marriage could redefine the family.
- GLBT parents discuss family structure and the role of biology: "There is a desire to understand one's biology. . . . It's not right to dismiss those feelings and deny your child their biology."
- Science Progress explains why GINA matters.
ART in the News: Weekend Round-Up Edition
"Frankenstein Science," Quadruplets, A Gene for Infertility, and More
May 27, 2008 •
- For years, sperm banks have focused solely on sperm donors and the women they get pregnant—not the offspring they produce. That's about to change.
- Who's more likely to be treated: a premature infant, or an older patient with a lower chance of survival?
- "Frankenstein Science": Has Britain lost its way?
- "The hardest decision is knowing when to stop treatment. You always think, 'What if the next one works?'"
- Do all women have the right to become mothers?
- An unusual set of quadruplets: A Nigerian woman gives birth to identical twins and fraternal twins.
- "You can walk in and say your sister got pregnant and everyone else will say 'Oh my God, we hate her too.'"
- Germany decries Britain's new ART law.
- A gene for infertility?
- More repro-lit: The pregnant man writes a memoir. A new play about how people become parents.
- Charlie Sheen and Denise Richards feud over "sperm donation" email.
- Natural remedies for infertility? Acupuncture gains popularity.
- The "next big advance in IVF": DNA fingerprinting.
- Babies born preterm are more than twice as likely to have major birth defects as full-term infants.
ART in the News: International Edition
Infertility Awareness Week, the HFEA, and more
May 21, 2008 •
- It's infertility awareness week in Canada. More Canadians are looking to the U.S. for egg donors.
- One in five Irish couples experience infertility.
- In the U.K.: A good summary of the debate over the HFEA. Do embryos need fathers? Despite a recent defeat, the abortion debate is heating up. Is Britain "one step closer to designer babies?" How about cybrids?
- Gordon Brown defends embryo research: a "moral endeavor" that can save the "lives of millions."
- Simon Jenkins: "MPs should stop meddling in how people choose to plan and protect their families. They have enough trouble with their own."
- South Korea bans cross-species cloning. Disgraced stem cell researcher Hwang Woo-Suk will clone dogs for cash.
Dignity Deathmatch, Round TwoMay 19, 2008 •
It's time for round two of the "dignity debate." The latest:
- BioEdge says Pinker is "no philosopher."
- Stuart Rennie asks if autonomy is in any "better conceptual shape" than dignity.
- Noah Millman gives "one cheer for Pinker even if he is being a jerk." (See too the interesting comment thread.)
- Alan Jacobs has some fun with Pinker's notion that the sciences and the humanities, "like Harry Potter and Lord Voldemort,...are predestined to eternal enmity: one of them must destroy the other."
Conceptions Special Guest: Donna Dickenson
Body Shopping, God-bothering, and moreMay 12, 2008 •
Donna Dickenson is one of Britain's leading experts on medical ethics. As professor of medical ethics and humanities at Birkbeck College in London, Dickenson has written on a variety of topics, including death and dying, assisted reproductive technology, the patenting of the human genome, and women's health. In 2006, she became the first woman to win the prestigious Spinoza Lens prize for her contribution to the public debate on ethics.
Professor Dickenson's latest book is Body Shopping: The Economy Fuelled By Flesh and Blood, a look at the rapidly growing trade in the human body. She kindly agreed to discuss her new work in an interview with Conceptions. Those in New York can see Prof. Dickenson in the flesh during her book tour on June 18-19. (For more details, see her website, www.donnadickenson.net.)
[Interview conducted, edited, and hyperlinked by Cheryl Miller.]
What is "body shopping"?
DD: I use the term "body shopping" to refer to the way in which human tissue, genes, gametes and organs are becoming consumer items like any other.
In your recent op-ed in the London Times, you write that the "'God vs. science' has become a dangerous distraction." How so? What kind of debate should we be having?
DD: In the Sunday Times article, I argued that the vituperative slanging match into which our debate on the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Bill has descended is diverting attention from serious ethical, economic and political issues about the widespread commercialisation of biotechnology. Debate has centred almost exclusively on "human admixed embryos," created from an enucleated cow or rabbit egg and a human somatic (body) cell, with religious figures lining up against this development and scientists insisting it's necessary for somatic cell nuclear transfer stem cell research. But there are many other important issues centring on the activities of biotechnology firms, such as the clinically dubious "product" offered by private umbilical cord blood banks, or the defensive patenting of human genes with an adverse effect on patient care. The 'God versus science' cliché, however, means that even a secular bioethicist like me risks being branded either a 'Luddite' or a 'God-botherer' for daring to pose ethical questions about scientific developments and their commercialisation.
The medical research community has long argued that ceding any ownership rights over tissue to donors will lead to patients buying and selling their own body parts. Should we own our own bodies? And if not, who should?
DD: It's quite odd for the medical research community to make this argument, when they see nothing wrong with commercial firms buying and selling intangible property rights in genetic sequences, or stem cell lines derived from donors of somatic cells and oocytes. The law has been equally contradictory: traditionally the common law viewed tissue taken from the body as res nullius, no one's thing, and therefore refused to allow patients like John Moore to exercise any rights over cell lines made from their tissue. If res nullius is taken to its logical conclusion, however, it should mean that no one, including researchers, universities and biotech firms, has any rights over cell lines of other forms of tissue either. But I don't actually advocate that we should own our bodies unreservedly: instead I favour more communal systems, such as the PXE model in which patient groups and biotech firms share rights over gene patents.
If we do "own" our own bodies, why aren't we entitled to sell off an egg or kidney if we so choose?
DD: As I say, I don't believe that we do own our bodies straightforwardly, although I do think that in cases where considerable labour has been expended--first and foremost, egg donation, which has been estimated to require up to 60 hours' labour--the donor should have some rights on a Lockean basis of having 'mixed one's labour'. Even if we did own our bodies, ownership rights in our common law are generally seen as a 'bundle of sticks', from which certain forms of control are chosen appropriate to the need in hand. You might have a right to donate your tissue but not to sell it, for example, as these are separate sticks in the bundle.
Many have argued that without payment, there would be a shortage of sperm and egg donors--as there is of kidney donors. If we use altruism as a principle for all tissue donation, how can we avoid a shortage of available gametes, or determine a fair way of rationing available resources?
DD: This seems to me to be a rather narrow outlook. Only the United States, so far as I know, operates a full-fledged system of egg and sperm sale, but other countries manage perfectly well with a more altruistic system. European countries generally pay expenses only, although the amount varies quite widely--but nothing like the exaggerated amounts paid for 'desirable' eggs in the US, up to $100,000 per cycle from blonde, tall, musical and athletic young women. Where there are shortages of eggs and sperm in European systems, they have more typically been caused by changes in regulations about donor anonymity than by any failure of altruism.
In your book, you note the different ways in which egg donation and sperm donation are treated under the law. You observe, "The assault on freedom is only noticed when it begins to apply to men." Are women more vulnerable to biotech predation? How so?
DD: That point doesn't arise from my discussion of egg or sperm donation; rather, in the last chapter, I argue that we all have 'feminised' bodies now insofar as all bodies are increasingly assumed to be open-access. The tremendous publicity given to the patenting of the human genome--one in five genes are now patented, affecting both sexes equally--contrasts with the very minimal publicity given to the demand for women's eggs in 'therapeutic cloning'--in some cases under conditions which may welll have been coercive, as in the Hwang Woo Suk scandal. Female tissue is still more valuable, but both sexes are vulnerable to 'body shopping'.
You have warned that women who donate their eggs for stem cell research could be at risk from life-threatening side effects. Do you think egg-harvesting and stem cell technologies will become more effective and safe in the future, and would that dispel some of your present concerns?
DD: We are seeing good scientific evidence that low-dosage ovarian stimulation regimes produce just as good overall results in IVF as high-dose ones, even though fewer eggs are 'harvested'. But research in somatic cell nuclear transfer research still requires very high numbers of eggs because the technology is very wasteful (Hwang used over 2,200 eggs to create precisely zero stem cell lines). I am more hopeful about the possibility that SCNT [somatic cell nuclear transfer] will be bypassed altogether, if induced pluripotent stem cell lines do indeed fulfil their promise, since that technique doesn't require human or animal eggs. Last week, by contrast, the upper house of the Western Australian parliament voted against a bill to allow SCNT research on scientific grounds, that the technology had failed to deliver on its earlier promise and the ethical issues around taking eggs from women were too overwhelming. This can be seen as a victory for the attempts made by activists and academics such as Marcy Darnovsky, Sarah Sexton, Diane Beeson, Cathy Waldby and myself to ensure that the risks to women became better known.
Critics argue against organ selling and surrogacy on the grounds that the poor are more likely to be sellers, and that the procedures in question are risky. Yet we allow people to take on dangerous jobs. Further, many argue that serving as a surrogate or selling an organ is their best available option. One Indian surrogate explained her decision thus: "This is not exploitation. Crushing glass for 15 hours a day is exploitation." Are organ selling and surrogacy somehow different from other "exploitative" work?
DD: Freedom of choice is not a knock-down argument. Even where we allow people to 'choose' dangerous jobs, we retain health and safety laws to limit the risk. But few such protections exist for commercial surrogates, particularly in the developing world. In addition, we need to look at the massive difference between what the surrogate is paid--even if it seems a lot to a poor Indian woman--and the profits of the commercial agency arranging the transaction. One US agency, for example, pays surrogates $25,000 but charges $100,000. Most of that $75,000 difference is pure profit. Unless you really think the agency has contributed three times as much of the 'value' of the baby as the birth mother, you would have to classify that as exploitation because the rightful contributor of the value has been shortchanged.
How can we work towards finding treatments for serious diseases without commodifying our bodies? What policies can lawmakers adopt to protect people from exploitation without impeding medical progress?
DD: We will be much more likely to find treatments for serious diseases if we can rectify the grossest abuses of body shopping. The biotechnology industry has been allowed to claim that it is the greatest promoter of medical progress, when in many cases it is arguably the greatest hindrance. That's particularly true where defensive gene patents or restrictive licensing agreements block researchers from developing alternative, better or cheaper cures. A single company, Myriad Genetics has patented the BRCA1 and BRCA2 genes involved in some breast cancers, meaning that in the United States (though not in Europe) a clinical diagnostic test for those genes can only be afforded by those who can pay the fee. Lawmakers and judges need to be much more sceptical about the abuses of genetic patenting in particular; this process has begun in Europe but is still largely ineffective in the United States.
One chapter in your new book is subtitled "Resistance is not futile." But the rise of medical tourism would seem to make legislating an impossible task. If all you need is a passport to buy an egg or find a surrogate mother, how can we effectively regulate biotechnology?
DD: The globalisation of the biotechnology industry does indeed made regulation more difficult, but it's not impossible. In Europe there is now a tissue directive binding on all EC countries, which makes egg sale for IVF illegal. Some European countries, particularly Germany, prohibit their citizens from buying surrogacy or eggs abroad, as well as on German soil. Similar laws exist in some countries in relation to sex tourism, especially with minors, so where the political will is there, a way can be found.
ART in the News
A Phony War on Science, Different Takes on Older Moms, etc.
May 8, 2008 •
- "The incredible hunch that told me I'd met my sperm donor father."
- A Phony War on Science: Washington Post columnist Michael Gerson discusses Yuval Levin's New Atlantis essay, "Science and the Left."
- "Who decides what's ethical and what isn't?": The ethics of reproductive technoglogy debated.
- Defending dignity: Dr. Edmund Pellegrino, the chairman of the President's Council on Bioethics, speaks at Stanford.
- Different takes on older mothers: From NPR: For prospective moms, biology and culture clash. From the WSJ: "Women my age just don't get pregnant." Well, they do. From the Detroit Free Press: "I love that I'm an older mom. I wasn't ready before...I am now."
- Hey, where's my artificial womb?
- Sperm shopping from a catalogue.
- In Canada, the rise of twins.
- More on the gayby boom: Surrogate mothers are fulfilling gay men's dreams of parenthood.
- Baby Mama portrays surrogacy as "ridiculous and innocuous."
- Top 10 tips for coping with infertility.
- The business of baby-making.
- A common weedkiller might be linked to unexplained infertility.


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"Purchasing and paying for a home over the long term represents the single largest financial commitment most households will make over a lifetime. To make this commitment, households must be confident in their economic prospects," said Toronto Real Estate Board President Richard Silver. "The fact that sales continued to grow through the first half of September suggests that GTA households remain confident that the economy will remain buoyant."
The average selling price in the first half of September was $454,194 – an increase of 11 per cent compared to the same period in September 2010. "Strong price growth in the GTA continues to be mitigated by a solid affordability picture. Mortgage rates will remain at or near current levels until the second half of 2012 if not into 2013," said Jason Mercer, the Toronto Real Estate Board's Senior Manager of Market Analysis.
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Letter, Albert C. Morton to Hiram Hill
Author: Morton, Albert C.
Date: February 27, 1858
Albert Morton wrote from Quindaro, Kansas Territory, to Hiram Hill in Massachusetts. Morton predicted a good property market for the coming spring, despite the "hard money matters" which had been the situation during the winter. He reported that the Shawnee lands would open soon, to have them paid for by the end of the summer, and that Hill's land investments in Manhattan were "in good standing". Morton added that Samuel Simpson has been busy lately, traveling back and forth from Quindaro to Lawrence.
Location of Original: KSHS Call Number: Hiram Hill Collection, #382, Box 1, Folder 7
Item Number: 102224 Number of images: 3
Keywords: Economic conditions; Hill, Hiram; Manhattan, Kansas Territory; Mills and mill-work; Morton, Albert C.; Quindaro, Kansas Territory; Real estate investment; Simpson, Samuel Newell; Wyandotte County, Kansas Territory
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Add center Dominic Raiola to the list of those taking blame for the final play of the Detroit Lions' 44-41 overtime loss to the Tennessee Titans.
The Lions were supposed to try to draw the defense offsides on fourth-and-1 from the Tennessee 7-yard line. The ball, however, was snapped when quarterback Shaun Hill stepped under center. Both coach Jim Schwartz and Hill previously took the blame, saying there was a communication issue.
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"I will take all the blame people want to give me," Raiola said, according to the Detroit News. "I know the staff and this locker room has my back and that's the most important thing. You want to question how hard I work, turn on that film and watch me play."
The Lions could have simply lined up and kicked the short field goal to tie the game. The normal offense came out, Hill walked to the line shouting instructions, then set up and began his cadence.
"We were trying to get up on the ball and run a play that wasn't supposed to be snapped," Raiola said. "I totally read Shaun's lips the wrong way. I ran a fullback dive. It was just mis-execution on my part. I thought it was a dive."
Schwartz admitted he was being too aggressive and should have used a timeout if there was any confusion in hurry-up mode.
"I think that is a great example of an overaggressive call by the head coach," Schwartz said. "I mean, we're going into the play, it seemed like there was no downside. 'Hey, try to draw them off.' If we jumped offside or did something else, we move back five yards and we still kick the field goal. We're in certain Jason Hanson range right there.
"But what wasn't supposed to have any downside ended up having a downside and that's on me as a head coach. That was a situation that aggressiveness (going for the first down) would have helped and given us a chance to win the game, instead of just tying the game and continuing -- and it ended up not giving us a chance to tie the game. That's on me."
We all over-think things from time to time. Even NFL coaches. Should have just taken the three points.


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4. I was a really bad teen. I used to sneak out at night, the window was to difficult, so I would just go out the front door! I eventually did get caught, and the fun was over.
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The 6 ladies I pass this on to are.......
I made the arrangement and got the gingerbread candle holder at Khol's.
The plate came from Dillard's
I made the frame.
The gingerbread girl in the teacup is my favorite ornament!
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…. in November 2004, the investor group took the company public as Nalco Holding Company… Nalco stock thus returned to trading on the New York Stock Exchange.. and thereby had recovered the original cash they had invested while still holding a 64 percent stake in Nalco….Through a series of secondary offerings culminating in February 2007, Apollo, Blackstone, and Goldman Sachs Capital Partners sold off their remaining shares in Nalco Holding. Analysts estimated that the private equity firms garnered a tidy profit of $1.68 billion on their original $992 million investment. Nalco, meantime, continued to focus on organic growth and was particularly targeting such emerging markets as Russia, China, and India…" http://www.answers.com/topic/nalco-holding-company
Nalco directors, accountability http://fedupusa.wordpress.com/nalco/
(Nalco) – Freeport, Texas is represented in Congress by Ron Paul http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freeport,_Texas The town was founded by the Freeport Sulphur Company, today's Freeport–McMoRan http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freeport_Sulphur_Company Company co-founder and Chairman, James R. (Jim Bob) Moffett has been called one of "the worst environmental desperadoes of modern times" (by the Austin Chronicle) http://www.zoominfo.com/people/Moffett_J._1315557935.aspx Moffett made his fortune wildcatting Gulf of Mexico oil, assuming the half-drilled abandoned wells of the industry giants. Freeport is the world's largest producer of gold and Henry Kissinger has sat on the Board. "As of mid-2008, McMoRan Exploration's Blackbeard well is below 32,550 feet (9,920 m), the deepest oil exploration well ever recorded." http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freeport-McMoRan Moffett moved Freeport's headquarters from his native New Orleans to Phoenix Arizona.
>>incidental to this blog, Moffett was a New Orleans Publc Library Commissioner at the time some highly questionable 'evidence' showed up in the NOPL concerning the death of Dr. Mary Sherman, a plotter in the JFK assassination. Information regarding the book 'Dr. Mary's Monkey' and its author Ed Haslam is at www.polioforever.wordpress.com/dr-marys-monkey/
Disraeli took a loan from Lord Rothschild to buy 44% of the Suez Company http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benjamin_Disraeli
GDF Suez Energy International: "The Belgium-based unit has operations in 100 countries in Asia, Europe, the Middle East, North America, and South America…. Suez was (and remains, through GDF Suez) one of the oldest continuously existing multinational corporations in the world" http://www.answers.com/topic/suez-2
Suez Lyonnaise: "Suez Lyonnaise des Eaux has transformed itself into one of the world's leading multi-utility powerhouses, offering private water, gas, electricity and waste-management services in more than 120 countries….Compagnie Universelle du Canal Maritime de Suez renamed itself Compagnie Financière de Suez in 1958 and began a new life as one of France's major financial powers" http://www.answers.com/topic/suez-lyonnaise-des-eaux
The Water Barons: http://projects.publicintegrity.org/water/db.aspx?act=db&par=6
"Suez Lyonnaise Chairman Gerard Mestrallet said Monday that the company is keenly eyeing other opportunities in the rapidly changing U.S. water sector. The French company also holds a 28 percent stake in United Water Resources of Harrington Park, the former Hackensack Water Co., and has joined with United Water to operate several major municipal water systems around the country. "We want to develop our presence in the United States with local partners and teams," Mestrallet said….Even after the U.S. purchases, energy remains Suez Lyonnaise's core business, with water second and waste services third…[As] a world leader in private infrastructure services and Nalco Chemical Company (NYSE: NLC), the world's largest provider of water treatment services and products, announced a definitive agreement for Nalco to be acquired by Suez Lyonnaise des Eaux in an all-cash transaction of approximately $4.1 billion, or $53 per share." http://www.waterindustry.org/New%20Projects/lyonnaise-acquires.htm
Apollo Management: founded 1990 by Leon Black, son of United Fruit's largest shareholder, Eli Black (rabbi Black suicided in Feb.1975 off the PanAm building http://www.nndb.com/company/280/000124905/ "Apollo Management controls more than 90% of Hexion." http://www.answers.com/topic/hexion-specialty-chemicals "In 2004, KKR sold Borden Chemical to Apollo Management" http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Borden_(company) Apollo is in the global Education industry: "The largest private university in the US, the University of Phoenix accounts for some 95% of Apollo's sales." http://www.answers.com/topic/apollo-group-inc Together with the Carlyle Group, Apollo Global is advancing "tactical investments" in education http://www.apolloglobal.us/
Leon Black is a close friend and associate of Michael Milken, the 'junk bond king' of the 1980s who went to jail in 1990 http://www.deepcapture.com/tag/leon-black/ Milken "emerged from prison as a legitimate entrepreneur… He co-founded a company called Education Entertainment Network, that produces business videos and CD/ROMs. In 1996, he and Larry Ellison [of Oracle] founded Knowledge Universe, a company dealing in a diverse variety of goods and services, including day care, executive education, corporate training, and toys." http://www.answers.com/topic/michael-milken Inadmissable 'hearsay' evidence from a 1985 trial suggests Milken conspired with KKR's Ted Ammon –Ammon was murdered on October 20, 2001. http://cases.justia.com/us-court-of-appeals/F2/999/27/308401/ Ted Ammon's murder is suspiciously linked to the 2001 anthrax attack, by timing and business associations. Ammon could have been called the 'junk mail king'. In Milken's 1990 trial, Ammon testified against him. http://thirdring.wordpress.com/junk-mail-murder/
Larry Ellison, Oracle founder and business partner of Apollo's Leon Black, is interested in something called "drug personalization". He says "If we know your DNA signature, we'll be able to warn you in advance not to take this [or that] drug…It's basically splicing—adding a gene. Let's say you're diabetic and we want to fix the diabetes. We'll have to go in and change your genetics." http://www.peoplesoft-planet.com/At-the-helm-larry-Ellison.html Ellison wants a 'real ID' in everyone's pocket, proposed after September 11. http://epic.org/privacy/id-cards/ Oracle was built as a database for the CIA… "In order to settle an insider trading lawsuit arising from Ellison's selling nearly $1 billion of Oracle stock, he was allowed to donate $100 million to his own charitable foundation without admitting wrongdoing." http://www.answers.com/topic/larry-ellison — Ellison's anti-aging foundation http://www.answers.com/topic/ellison-medical-foundation
Goldman Sachs, of course, parses its executives out to chair the international NGO environmental organizations. Read The Debt-for-Nature Scheme.
Peter D. Sutherland, former non-executive Chairman of (UK subsidiary) Goldman Sachs Int'l " in early 2010 finished a 13-year stint as chairman of BP, Europe's largest oil company. At one point during his tenure, the company was valued on the stock market at £236 billion" http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Sutherland "What do British Petroleum, Goldman Sachs, and the Inter-Alpha Group of Banks have in common? For one thing, they are tools of the British Empire, dedicated to destroying the United States and all vestiges of national sovereignty on the planet. For another, they are all criminal enterprises, which corrupt everything they touch. And third, they are all polluters on a massive scale: BP does it with oil, while Goldman Sachs and the Inter-Alpha Group do it with derivatives and other forms of casino finance. In that regard, we repeat something that we have reported before: they all come together in the form of Sir Peter Sutherland.." http://www.larouchepac.com/node/14786 British Petroleum – Amoco – ARCO http://www.corporations.org/bp-amoco/
Blackstone personnel were intimate stakeholders in the 2001 Anthrax Attack. www.thirdring.wordpress.com More news about following-the-money is coming up….
World Wildlife Fund's president of policy, William M. Eichbaum [April 29, 2010] " 'As terrible as this situation is, the impacts would be far worse should this spill have taken place in the harsh and remote environment of the Arctic… We cannot take a similar risk with the Arctic.' " http://www.worldwildlife.org/who/media/press/2010/WWFPresitem16103.html
"The International Union for Conservation of Nature — the world's largest environmental network — has called for a global moratorium on oil and gas drilling in environmentally sensitive deepwater and polar areas.' The technology to minimize the risks and impacts of catastrophes such as the Deepwater Horizon oil spill is obviously lacking at present,' said IUCN Director General Julia Marton–Lefevre." [see youtube] http://www.bradenton.com/2010/06/29/2396819/oil-spill-causes-international.html
Radioactive Oil, Tar and Gas
Naturally Occurring Radioactive Materials (NORM) http://pubs.usgs.gov/fs/fs-0142-99/fs-0142-99.pdf
Tar samples and a geiger counter (no audio) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qwfol_GsTSE
Dead Zone or Zone Shift?
Synthetic Biology (creating more demand?): "Prof. [Ananda M.] Chakrabarty genetically engineereda new species of Pseudomonas bacteria ("the oil-eating bacteria") in 1971 while working for the Research & Development Center at General Electric Company in Schenectedy, New York. At the time, four known species of oil-metabolizing bacteria were known to exist, but when introduced into an oil spill, competed with each other, limiting the amount of crude oil that they degraded. The genes necessary to degrade oil were carried on plasmids, which could be transferred among species. By irradiating the transformed organism with UV light after plasmid transfer, Prof. Chakrabarty discovered a method for genetic cross-linking that fixed all four plasmid genes in place and produced a new, stable, bacteria species (now called pseudomonas putida) capable of consuming oil one or two orders of magnitude faster than the previous four strains of oil-eating microbes. The new microbe, which Chakrabarty called "multi-plasmid hydrocarbon-degrading Pseudomonas," could digest about two-thirds of the hydrocarbons that would be found in a typical oil spill….The "oil-eating bacteria" has been used to clean up many toxic oil spills, including the one caused by the Exxon Valdez disaster." http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ananda_Mohan_Chakrabarty
Bioremediation in China http://www.csmonitor.com/World/Global-News/2010/0723/Oil-eating-bacteria-to-the-China-oil-spill-rescue
Synthetic Genes Are Crossing Species Barrier : " We have a catastrophic biological disaster in the Gulf of Mexico. This is because the cells of all species, including those of mankind, can and do adopt foreign genetic material from both dead and live cells…" http://worldvisionportal.org/wordpress/index.php/2011/02/gulf-synthetic-genes-crossing-species-barriers/
BP invested in synthetic "enhanced" oil-inhabiting microbes designed to improve the underground flow of gas and oil http://worldvisionportal.org/wvpforum/viewtopic.php?t=1031&f=52
Aerosol Crimes ; aerial spraying (to be posted)
Evergreen Air, Inc. http://www.answers.com/topic/evergreen-international-aviation
Evergreen Oil, Inc. http://cms.evergreenoil.com/
Evergreen Pacific Partners http://www.eppcapital.com/news/ Evergreen Pacific Partners is the largest shareholder of NupreconCST, billed as the second-largest demolitions company in the U.S.; in 2009 Nuprecon acquired MARCOR remediation, contractor for WTC and anthrax clean-up. http://www.nuprecon.com/news.html
Radiation and Chemically Induced Diseases : www.polioforever.wordpress.com Low-level radiation doubles the effect of nitric oxide [nitrates, such as food additives] inducing 'nitrogen catabolism', a cause of AIDS. Read AIDS, Opium, Diamonds and Empire by Dr. Nancy T. Banks. See the brief review on the blog: https://jenniferlake.wordpress.com/2010/12/22/aids-opium-diamonds-and-empire/
http://sciencecorps.org/crudeoilhazards.htm#Auth (webpage below)


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Witness Rachel Jeantel, left, continues her testimony to defense attorney Don West on day 14 of George Zimmerman's trial in Seminole circuit court in Sanford, Fla., on June 27.
Editor's note: This story contains racially charged language that may be offensive to some readers.
A friend who was on the phone with Trayvon Martin moments before he was killed gave the unarmed teen's mother a letter outlining the events leading up to his death. In the letter she didn't count race among the reasons why Martin may have been killed, despite later testifying that circumstances around the death were racially charged.
Rachel Jeantel, 19, took the witness stand Thursday for a second day in George Zimmerman's second-degree murder trial and answered questions about the Feb. 26, 2012, shooting of Martin, which Zimmerman is charged with. She also answered questions about a letter she says she wrote with a friend and gave to Martin's mom several weeks after Martin's death.
Martin, 17, was shot and killed while walking back to his dad's girlfriend's gated Sanford, Fla., community from a convenience store on a rainy evening. Zimmerman has pleaded not guilty to second-degree murder charges, claiming he was acting in self-defense.
Jeantel, of Miami, was the last person on the phone with Martin the night he was killed and says she heard the start of her friend's deadly confrontation with Zimmerman. She's considered a key witness for the prosecution.
On Thursday, a defense attorney questioned Jeantel about the letter she had given to Martin's mom, Sybrina Fulton, and asked why the letter didn't have any references to racially charged reasons for the killing — a motive the defense is trying to quash for why Zimmerman, who is of white and Hispanic descent, shot Martin, who is black.
A copy of the letter was read in court to jurors:
"I was on the phone when Trayvon decided to go to the corner store. It started to rain so he decided to walk through another complex because it was raining too hard. He started walking, then noticed someone was following him. Then he decided to find a shortcut 'cause the man wouldn't follow him. Then he said the man didn't follow him again. Then he looked back and saw the man again. The man started getting closer, then Trayvon turned around and said, 'Why are you following me?' Then I heard him fall, then the phone hung up. I called back and text. No response. In my mind I thought it was just a fight. Then I found out this tragic story."
See the letter that was presented in court (.pdf)
The letter was dated March 19, 2012, and was signed "Diamond Eugene" – which Jeantel told the court was her nickname.
Defense attorneys asked Jeantel to read the letter in court, but Jeantel said she was unable to read it because she can't read cursive. When they probed her as to how she could have written the letter if she can't read cursive, she told them she dictated the words to a friend, who wrote it for her. So defense attorneys read it aloud to the courtroom instead.
While the letter was read, Trayvon Martin's parents, Tracy Martin and Sybrina Fulton, showed little emotion, staring straight ahead in the courtroom.
But defense attorney Don West was more curious about what the letter left out rather than what was in it. He asked Jeantel about an interview with the Martin family attorney in which race relations had come up.
"It was in the interview with Mr. [Benjamin] Crump that you said you thought this was a racial thing?" West asked.
"He had asked me if it was a racial thing," Jeantel responded.
Jeantel said her opinion on motives around Martin's killing was untainted by outside sources because she didn't watch the news, and decided that based on "how the situation happened" she had come to the conclusion that the killing was racially motivated. West asked if the fact that Martin had told her on the phone that a "creepy ass cracker" was following him influenced her suspicions about it being racially motivated; Jeantel told him it did not, that the fact that Martin was "being followed" was more what made her think it was a racially charged event.
West also asked why Jeantel left out other details of the night from the letter. On Wednesday, Jeantel testified in the Sanford, Fla., courtroom that the last words she heard Martin say before the phone cut out were "Get off, get off." West wanted to know why she didn't mention those final words that she heard to his grieving mother as she explained what happened that night when she went to hand-deliver her letter.
"Ms. Fulton did not ask me," Jeantel said.
Jeantel also admitted giving a different play-by-play of the phone call to Crump vs. what she testified Wednesday. She told Crump during an interview last year that while she was talking to Martin she heard a man on the phone ask, "What are you talking about?" But Wednesday, Jeantel had testified that on that night she heard a man who sounded to be out of breath say to Martin, "What are you doing around here?"
Martin then said, "Get off, get off," before the phone cut off, Jeantel said Wednesday.
She said that Martin had said a man was following him in the minutes before his death, and that she had advised her friend to run away. After the phone line went dead, she called and texted Martin, but got no response.
Woman who placed 911 call testifies
On Wednesday afternoon, following Jeantel's testimony, a representative from T-Mobile – the carrier of the phone Martin had the night he was killed – took the stand to answer questions about Martin's phone records, focusing on calls prior to his death.
Jenna Lauer, a resident of Twin Lakes who was home with her husband watching TV when Martin was killed, was next.
Lauer is the woman who placed the call that captured screams in the moments before Martin's death.
That call was the subject of hearings over the last several weeks about whether to admit testimony of experts hired by the state who concluded the screaming voice was not Zimmerman's.
Last weekend, Judge Debra Nelson sided with the defense and ruled the expert testimony would not be heard. But Nelson said the recording itself could be played, which it was in court on Thursday.
Lauer testified that she and her husband muted the TV on Feb. 26 after they heard sounds coming from the direction of the backyard – something that at first "just sounded like loud talking," she said, but she said she couldn't make out any words.
Lauer told the court she didn't hear anyone say "You're going to die tonight, mother***er" – a phrase Zimmerman told police that Martin uttered in the moments before Zimmerman drew his gun.
Later under cross-examination, she also said she didn't hear anyone say "Why are you following me for?" a question Martin, according to Jeantel, had asked in his last moments.
Lauer later described the sounds as being people "scuffling around."
"I keep saying scuffling because it sounded like sneakers on pavement and grass," Lauer said.
As the noises continued and turned into "yelping," Lauer called 911.
The yelps, plus screams for help, could be heard while she was on the phone with 911, but Lauer, who was a member of the Retreat at Twin Lakes' homeowners' association and had seen Zimmerman several times, couldn't see who the screams were coming from. She said a gunshot went off while she was still on the phone with 911, and the screams stopped afterwards.
As for who was yelling for help, "it was one person," Lauer said, and it was a man, although she couldn't identify who it was. She said neither she nor her husband looked out the window during the incident, fearing they may get hurt.
Zimmerman, 29, was a neighborhood watch volunteer in the Retreat at Twin Lakes community at the time of the killing. He could face life in prison if he is convicted.
Editor's note: George Zimmerman has sued NBC Universal for defamation. The company strongly denies the allegation.


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Caroline Chisholm College
Each individual's journey is different. However, the journey of a husband and a wife is parallel. On April 15 1950, in the small town of Reggio Calabria, my grandparents began their 60-year journey together. Emigrating from Italy in the 1950s, my grandparents shared many experiences and memories, most of these from their homes. Il viaggo a casa represents the journey my grandparents took. Each ceramic form incorporates architectural features of the homes they shared at different stages of their journey. Through the collation of various documents that have been preserved, I was able to create a timeline representing their journey.
Influencing artists: Shona Wilson, Sheryl Zacharia, Johannes Nagel


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NEWARK – New Jersey Governor Chris Christie signed a bill into law on Monday banning children under 17 from using commercial tanning beds, a move stemming from the case of a local woman accused of taking her 5-year-old daughter into a tanning booth.
Christie said that while he does not favor government regulation of small business, the new law was important for protecting the safety of minors.
"Governmental regulation of the private sector should always be carefully scrutinized, and sparingly adopted," he said in a statement. "The new restrictions imposed by this bill followed a single but breathlessly reported incident of a parent bringing a minor child into a tanning facility."
Patricia Krentcil of Nutley, New Jersey, was arrested in April 2012 after her daughter showed up at school with a sunburn and officials accused her of taking the child into a tanning booth.
Krentcil, who became known in tabloid stories as the "Tan Mom," testified that her own chocolate-brown hue came from many hours spent under the intense ultraviolet light of a tanning bed or out in the sun soaking up rays.
She denied exposing her daughter to a tanning session, and a grand jury opted not to indict her on charges of endangering the welfare of a child.
New Jersey was already one of several states that have regulations prohibiting anyone age 14 or younger from tanning with commercial ultraviolet devices because of the risk of skin cancer. The new law extends that ban to older teenagers.
Signing the bill into law, Christie noted the skin cancer risk and also that tanning before age 35 has been shown to increase the risk for melanoma by 75 percent.
Under the new law, youth age 17 and older must have a parent or guardian present for an initial consultation with a tanning salon. It also bans children under 14 from getting spray tans in tanning salons.


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That quote is actualy very witty, Celdur. I suggest you use that in your signature.
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Adam Sandler is going to take on a dual role in his next film – as both "Jack and Jill."
According to Variety, the comedian, who will produce the romantic comedy via his Happy Madison banner, will play both the male and female title twins in the romantic comedy. The film is expected in early 2011 from Sony.
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While actors ranging from Dustin Hoffman to Robin Williams to Martin Short have dressed up as females on the big screen, the comedian joins a select group of men who have actually played women, including John Travolta ("Hairspray") and Tyler Perry (the "Madea" films).
Up first for Adam is "Grown Ups," a high school reunion comedy, and the "Zookeeper," where he'll extend his talents even further as the voice of a zoo animal.
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March 20, 2006
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Why? Campo: "I was told by Major League Baseball that when the guys got political, not to talk about it." ... MLB spokesman Patrick Courtney disagreed: "That was never the case. At no time did we state that players could not answer political questions."
How is that sentence even vaguely political?
Keith Foulke threw a 21-pitch batting practice session on Saturday and is convinced he'll start the season on time "unless something unforeseen happens". Jason Varitek: "He threw a couple great changeups. He threw some good cutters. He threw a couple fastballs that really bit, that really got there. He looked very good."
Curt Schilling has worked a changeup into his pitching repertoire. "I'm throwing my changeup to the point where I'm going to be able to use it now to get people out. It's something I've wanted to have and never been comfortable with until now."
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- DAL said...
The comment is explicitly political, in light of the Cuban player's standing as a communist, i.e. one whose government does not run on capitalistic concerns. Cepeda is taking a veiled shot at mercenary players who toil for the $$, and equating success with emotion which, while not necessarily implying a comparison between himself and his opponents, could be interpreted as an assertion of nationalistic and ideological superiority over the rival, heartless capitalists. But hey, good for him.
- March 23, 2006 at 8:54 PM
- laura k said...
The statement has political overtones, as it's anti-capitalist. Are the capitalists so insecure about the value of their own system that they must censor anything that questions it?
- March 24, 2006 at 12:50 PM
- DAL said...
I'm not sure it's insecurity over capitalism as a system so much as America exhibiting its continued desire to a. not be part of the world, and b. dictate its terms unto others. Censorship in this case isn't just idiotic, it's taking away from the Cubans' achievement, and their valid self-expression of beliefs. That strikes me as pretty sad.
- March 24, 2006 at 6:53 PM


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The Girl Scouts of South Carolina – Mountains to Midlands has honored Lexington Medical Center's Barbara Willm, Vice President of Community Relations, at the 20th Annual Women of Distinction Awards Dinner. Willm was recognized Thursday, April 11, at the Columbia Metropolitan Convention Center in Columbia for her excellence in leadership throughout the midlands.
"I am honored to be a part of such an esteemed group of women and it is even more special because I was a Girl Scout," said Mrs. Willm.
First launched in 1993, the Women of Distinction dinner is a recognition and fundraising affair that celebrates outstanding women and their impact on the community. The event pays tribute to women who exemplify excellence in service, leadership, community, visibility and professionalism.
"I was proud to nominate Barbara for this outstanding award," said Bootsie Wynne, Assistant Director Business Partner of Human Resources at Lexington Medical Center. "When I saw that the criteria asked for women who excelled in professional community leadership andcommunity service, who are excellent role models for girls and have community visibility, I knew she fit the bill perfectly. Not only was Barbara a Girl Scout when she was younger, she has also gone on to exemplify women in leadership. The goal of the Girl Scouts of SC Mountains to Midlands is to build girls with courage confidence and character. I think Barbara is a great example for all girls and women alike," added Wynne.
Girl Scouts exists to transform today's girls into tomorrow's leaders. Girls face many critical issues including school bullying, childhood obesity, teen pregnancy, self-esteem issues, substance abuse, and performance pressure in school. Participation in the Girl Scouts is proven to make a life-long difference.
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My name is Lula and I'm a Blue-eyed Snow Spotted Bengal.
Our mum and dad say that I always lead Spot astray and into trouble, but I think he's perfectly capable of doing that all by himself!
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This is one of our favourite kitten pics, though I'm all grown up now and am a big strong lad 🙂
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I like to patrol the territory and enjoy a nice snooze on the hoomins' bed when it's cold 🙂
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Several dozen colleges and universities in Texas have joined together to bring their state into a national education initiative called Liberal Education and America's Promise (LEAP), a program of the Association of American Colleges and Universities.
Texas has become the 10th state to join the program, the focus of which is bringing 21st century education to colleges and universities. According to information provided by Texas A&M University, more than 60 public and private colleges and universities banded together to create LEAP Texas, with the objective of improving communications between institutions, developing policies and plans, addressing common issues and generally improving the state of post-secondary education in Texas — with a particular emphasis on learning outcomes.
"Students at Texas higher education institutions must attain certain critical skills for future success in the workplace and throughout life," said Raymund Paredes, Texas commissioner of higher education, in a prepared statement. "Strong communication, the ability to work well within a team, critical thinking skills, as well as other [competencies] have been identified in the new Texas Core Curriculum for Higher Education as being crucial to success. The Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board and LEAP Texas are aligned in our efforts to identify higher education learning outcomes that not only improve completion and productivity rates within higher education and the workforce, but also enhance and inspire the quality of students' learning."
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Summer's a good time for Trixie.
The girls were wearing shorts and tops so that they could take a dip in the lake whenever they wanted to, without bothering to change into swimsuits.There's swimming! And horses! Oh, and diamonds.
One diamond, actually, found by Trixie and Honey (of course) in the floor of the cottage at the edge of the Manor House grounds.
Honey, having learned how to tell real gems from paste (what else would a millionaire's daughter do?), is ready to hand the diamond over to the police immediately. But the ever-persuasive Trixie has other plans.
"Oh, no, please," Trixie begged. "Let's not tell anybody about it for a little while. Let's try to solve the mystery of how it got in the cottage ourselves."And why doesn't Trixie want the police involved?
"The cottage would be positively crawling with detectives who'd find all the clues before we had a chance."Because this is when Trixie discovers her true calling: she's going to be a detective. And Honey too, just as soon as they get through with pesky things like chores and school and older brothers who like to make fun of them.
Yes, brothers. Aside from the detective thing, Brian and Mart Belden's first appearance is what makes The Gatehouse Mystery the first real book in the series. (There's also the fact that I had this one long before I acquired the first two, but I'm sticking with my thesis.)
"The one on the left with the funny-looking crew cut is Mart. The other odd-looking creature is Brian. I hate them both at the moment."Trixie hates her brothers (at the moment) for the same reason I love them: they provide some much-needed perspective and tranquility, and aren't given to making assumptions like "The reason why the crooks didn't come back for it when they found out it wasn't with all the rest of the loot is that they got killed off in a gang war or something."
You love them too, don't you?
By the way, the Wheelers are rich. Just in case you'd forgotten.
In book #3, that means Honey gets stuck with lines like this:
"Regan's been complaining that, what with having to drive servants back and forth and having such trouble with car repairs, we need a chauffeur. I really think I'm going to have to speak to Daddy about it."And this one:
"Don't feel so bad. Daddy has plenty of money. He can keep us out of jail... If the police come around asking for diamonds, Mother will give them one of hers."Oh, and we're treated to a description of casual dining a la Wheeler:
But on Thursdays, the cook's night off, the meal was a much more simple affair. Celia served the first course, and then she and Miss Trask brought in platters of cold cuts and big bowls of salad. Everyone helped himself, and the dessert was usually fruit and crackers with several kinds of cheese. Grown-ups were served coffee in fragile little cups.(Is it just me, or does anyone else think Maureen O'Hara would be just right as Mrs. Wheeler?)
A few other miscellaneous bits of interest:
- The Gatehouse Mystery was my introduction to Diamond Jim Brady (the Belden siblings are familiar enough with the name that they can use it as a subtle reference to the gem in question) and the art of forging signatures. The actual forgery instructions weren't so useful, because carbon paper was no longer a household staple by the time I met the book (and it was no longer the case that "anyone can rent a typewriter"), but I still liked knowing how to do it.
- For everyone keeping count, this is now the second time we've seen "bracelets" for handcuffs, this time courtesy of Jim.


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"Floodline Warnings Direct is a reliable and effective system that provides our customers with critical information. It has proved itself time and time again"
Craig Woolhouse Head of Flood Incident Management, Environment Agency
Five million people, in over two million properties, now live in flood risk areas in England and Wales. However, according to the government's 'Foresight Future Flooding' report climate change will increase the risk of flooding in the UK by 20 times, which will more than double the number of people at a high risk from flooding.
It is the responsibility of the Environment Agency, part of the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra), to predict and warn of the risk of flooding from rivers and seas in England and Wales. However, its effectiveness was hampered by its legacy systems, which were fragmented and had varying capabilities and compatibilities.
So, as part of its Flood Warning Investment Strategy, the Environment Agency embarked on the development of a national flood warning system that could deliver timely warnings, using multiple communications channels, to the public, professional partners, including the emergency services and local councils, and the media.
Fujitsu won three contracts with the Environment Agency spanning the full lifecycle of the Floodline Warnings Direct (FWD) application, including consultancy and design, application development and deployment and finally the provision of a fully managed service for both the application and the supporting infrastructure.
Hosted and managed in Fujitsu datacentres, the FWD application enables the Environment Agency to determine target areas for pre-defined warning messages. On receiving information of a potential severe weather situation, the Environment Agency can now utilise FWD's advanced mapping and location information to accurately identify people at risk of potential flooding.
Categories of warning include 'Flood Alert' and 'Flood Warning', which are issued through the FWD system in order to alert emergency services and local residents simultaneously using their preferred communication methods – landline or mobile phones, using text to speech technology, and email, fax, SMS text, pager or letter. As these channels can be used in any combination in order to deliver the warnings, FWD is the first truly multi-channel information dissemination service based upon geographic targeting.
Opened up to the public at the beginning of 2006, FWD is a free service that has seen heavy usage, including successful operation during the summer of 2007 when over 47,000 homes and 8,000 businesses were flooded during the wettest May to July on record. The unseasonable weather meant FWD issued 220,000 warning messages to the public in June and July 2007.
In addition, in the last week of April 2012 the system delivered 54,000 warnings calls to 459 areas in a 24 hour period telling people that their properties were in danger of being flooded – an 85% increase on the previous high of 29,000 calls.
One of FWD's customers is the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, The Rt Hon Hilary Benn MP, who registered for the service and received his warning in time to move his car from an area that was subsequently flooded. At the time, in a Statement to the House of Commons, Hilary Benn said, "The flood warning system is a good one, as I know from personal experience. I urge everyone to get plugged in to it, because it gives people notice and enables them to take action in such circumstances."
FWD now has 1.36 million registered users and has issued over 7.5 million calls since its launch, including, 279,000 during the coastal floods of January 2008. Despite such high volumes, 99% of customers were contacted by FWD within 30 minutes of an alert being issued, with 95% within 13 minutes.
Innovation is continual for FWD, which helps to meet the recommendations of the Pitt Review into the floods of 2007. The next change will be an enhancement to include an online registration service, making it easier for the public to sign-up and putting the citizen experience at the forefront of the service.
Craig Woolhouse, Head of Flood Incident Management, Environment Agency, comments, "The Floodline Warnings Direct system is the most advanced early warning system we have ever had. However, in an age where weather systems are becoming increasingly unpredictable, we are determined to continue to evolve the system to provide residents and businesses with as much advance warning of potential flooding."
The FWD application developed and managed by Fujitsu is enabling the Environment Agency to:
Craig Woolhouse confirms that centralisation of information and resources enabled by the FWD application has helped improve consistency and the level of service. He explains, "Before we had this national system we had to rely on a number of different teams issuing their own warnings. There's no way we could have managed with the volume of warnings we issue now without FWD. Warnings can go out incredibly quickly. With the old system, that would be very difficult to do."
At the start of the FWD project one of the major challenges facing the Environment Agency was how to communicate with large numbers of people in an effective and timely fashion, while also delivering a personalised customer experience across multiple communications channels.
As a result, the application developed by Fujitsu is based on a service oriented architecture (SOA) that uses 'standard' platforms, like XML, SOAP, and J2EE, to enable the seamless exchange of data between applications. FWD also employs a combination of highly innovative technologies, such as spatial databases, Text to Speech conversion and Outbound Communication / Telephony Control software, which are accessible through an easy to use web-browser front-end.
By continually analysing Met Office forecasts, rainfall radar, ground saturation levels and river sensor telemetry, together with detailed maps of possible flood areas, the Environment Agency can decide when to issue flood warnings. In such cases, any properties that are at risk in the expected flood area can be quickly identified using their precise geo-coordinates. The contact details and communication preferences stored in the customer database can then be used to issue a pre-defined alert message, including different variables such as the current time.
With over 40 years experience of supporting the needs of customers, Fujitsu has a proven track record in providing complex systems integration and application development and management services that reduce costs, improve productivity and customer services and deliver a compelling return on investment.
Fujitsu is the leading Japanese information and communication technology (ICT) company offering a full range of technology products, solutions and services. Over 170,000 Fujitsu people support customers in more than 100 countries. We use our experience and the power of ICT to shape the future of society with our customers.
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Chicago, IL -- (SBWIRE) -- 05/02/2014 -- According to Cost of Wedding, the average couple spends $11,230 on a wedding venue, catering and rentals. One must wonder, however, what type of venue one used as a person's wedding is one of the most important days of a person's life and the wrong choice could be disastrous, no matter the cost. "European Crystal wants to show consumers why the choice of venue remains one of the most important decisions one must make when planning a wedding. Contact EC Banquet today to set up a consultation as this meeting determines if European Crystal Banquet is the right choice for your big day," Krystyna Cazares of European Crystal Banquet explains.
EC Banquet sits down with each potential client to determine his or her needs and go over the various steps required when one chooses a venue for a wedding. Before and after the event, food, drinks, and music are provided. The steps covered during this consultation include setting one's budget for the banquet hall, sizing of the venue to ensure it easily holds all guests, the tone of the banquet hall. and the food selection. The Grand Ballroom offers 19 foot ceilings, rich and neutral colors and grand chandeliers while the Parlor Room provides a more intimate setting, featuring two fireplaces at each end and mahogany wood floors, among other attractions.
"Banquet halls need to provide room for all guests to mingle comfortably, yet shouldn't be so large that people don't interact. Establishing a budget and ensuring the venue fits easily into the budget offers the happy couple the opportunity to splurge more in other areas. In addition, this helps to prevent an oversized venue as one can choose one that meets their needs and save here also. When choosing, one needs to ensure the venue is elegant and sets the right tone, one that mimics the overall tone of the ceremony while reflecting the personality of the newly joined couple," Cazares continues.
Food often also dictates the success or failure of an event. Everyone has attended a beautiful wedding only to be sorely disappointed with the reception and the food offered. This is never an issue with European Crystal Banquet. Couples using the venue find they have a wide variety of menus to choose from and, no matter which menu is selected, the food is outstanding. Couples select from a wedding lunch menu, a Friday/Sunday menu, a Saturday wedding menu and a South Asian wedding menu, among others.
"Contact European Crystal Banquet today to set up this consultation. Voted 'best of the knot' two years running, EC Banquet has a reputation to uphold and does everything reasonably possible to ensure each couple is thrilled with their reception and every aspect of it," Cazares declares.
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European Crystal Banquet remains one of the top rated wedding venues within the Chicago area and has been honored with 'best of the knot' for Chicago wedding venues two years running. The elegant grand ballroom holds up to 550 guests with ease and caters to a wide range of events and ceremonies. Providing excellent service, amazing food, and amazing weddings at affordable rates, European Crystal Banquet is the place to hold your next function.


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In the early 1980s a synthesis method for offset dual-reflector antennas was developed by Norwegian Telecom Research (NTR), and 3.3 m and 1.8 m antennas were produced by Raufoss. Although the main focus of Fibo-Støp was on the automotive industries it successfully produced and marketed from the late 1980s offset dual-reflector antennas of the same type for use of satellite TV reception.
The goal of the method was to obtain a prescribed aperture distribution, giving the wanted radiation pattern with high gain, low sidelobes, or a combination with rather high gain and quite low sidelobes. This goal was obtained by shaping the sub- and main-reflectors, and in this way let them have small deviations from the original confocal system (with parabolic and elliptical or hyperbolic surfaces of revolution). The method also gives a low cross polarisation. The synthesis was based upon Geometrical Optics (GO), and when using this method the diffraction effects were not included. The radiation pattern including these effects could be found by a Physical Optics (PO) analysis.
The first offset dual-reflector antenna was built in 1981, and a few years later production started at Raufoss. Their production technique was based on composite materials on an aluminium honeycomb structure. The technique fulfilled the requirements and Raufoss produced several 3.3 m and 1.8 m antennas up to 1987, but the production method was too expensive to produce antennas in large numbers. In 1988 the production was transferred to EB-NERA (later ABB-NERA). The reflectors were produced at Ticon in Drammen. They used polyester with glass fibre as material, and were able to produce the antennas cheaper. At that moment, they only produced 3.3 m antennas.
These antennas were intended for Ku-band (11/14 GHz), but with a modification of the feed horn they could be used at other frequency bands (12/18 GHz or 4/6 GHz). With a modified sub reflector, the 1.8 m antennas were also used at Ka-band (20/30 GHz). The large antennas (D > 1.5 m), were only produced in a limited number, but smaller antennas were mass-produced for the consumer and professional market at Fibo-Støp, Holmestrand.
The 55 cm and 90 cm antennas have been produced for some years and obtained a good reputation both in Norway and in other European countries. They were shaped for high gain, and their efficiencies are higher than 80%. The 55 cm antenna has also obtained a price for good design. In 1991 Fibo started also manufacturing the 120 cm version. The 120 cm antenna was intended for both the receive-only consumer market and for the business communication market in the 11/14 GHz band. It is shaped to have rather low sidelobes and still having high gain. Like the other antennas produced at Fibo-Støp. The 55 cm, 90 cm and 120 cm antennas were sold in large numbers as brand Fibo-Støp and other brands like Philips, Grundig, Delta Star, Kreiselmeyer, Master Focus, Nokia, Mediagate and some others.
Fibo AS (a.k.a Fibo-Støp) was established in 1957 in Holmestrand, Norway. They started out with High Pressure Diecasting and a small product range for domestic electrical installations. Fibo was focused on production of high value added components and assemblies. Fibo was offering a complete range of services, from design and manufacturing to assembly and testing, and was focused on the automotive and telecommunication/IT markets in Europe. Since 1996 Fibo belonged to the Trident Component Group (TCG). The foundry had it's ups and downs and had some changes of the chairman over the years. Till 1 Juli 2005 Einar Sorkness was the CEO, then Jan Gjertsen was appointed to this function. In 2009 the production manager Ole Nese became chairman of Fibo. At that time Fibo had already a bad financial position caused by disappointed sales at it's consumers Saab, Skania and Ford. The financial director and also co-owner of Fibo was Johan Gerhard Sagberg. In the hay days Fibo the company had a turnover of 130 million NOK (almost 20 million Euro) and 115 employees on the payroll.
On 19 September 2001 TCG Fibo signed an agreement with the Swedish company SWE-DISH to sell the business part for satellite television antennas. In the early products of Swe-Dish the Fibo design is clearly noticeable. The aim of SWE-DISH was to improve the antenna and decide whether or not to start up production of the 90 cm antenna again. But the tooling for Fibo dishes was scrapped.
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text: Korean Job Discussion Forums :: View topic - stats about Korea Speak Korean Now! Korean Job Discussion Forums"The Internet's Meeting Place for ESL/EFL Teachers from Around the World!" FAQ Search Memberlist Usergroups Register Profile Log in to check your private messages Log in stats about Korea Korean Job Discussion Forums Forum Index -> General Discussion Forum View previous topic :: View next topic Author Message sidJoined: 02 Feb 2003Location: Berkshire, England Posted: Wed Feb 19, 2003 9:29 am Post subject: stats about Korea I know that ethnic minorities in Korea constitute about 0.0005% of the population, but could anyone suggest where I might find the actual figures? Back to top dogbertJoined: 29 Jan 2003Location: Killbox 90210 Posted: Wed Feb 19, 2003 9:38 am Post subject: http://www.nso.go.kr/cgi-bin/sws_999.cgi?ID=DT_1IN9507&IDTYPE=3&A_LANG=1&FPUB=3 http://www.nso.go.kr/cgi-bin/sws_999.cgi?ID=DT_1B040A2&IDTYPE=3&A_LANG=1&FPUB=3 Back to top sidJoined: 02 Feb 2003Location: Berkshire, England Posted: Wed Feb 19, 2003 10:21 am Post subject: Cheers, very useful. Back to top atinaJoined: 19 Jan 2003Location: Seoul Posted: Wed Feb 19, 2003 3:01 pm Post subject: I don't know about that .00000???% - there are quite a few foreign faces around- of all nationalities. (if you know where to go ) Back to top mokpochicaJoined: 21 Jan 2003Location: Ann Arbor, MI Posted: Thu Feb 20, 2003 3:28 pm Post subject: ... I'm guessing that he's talking about people who have become naturalized citizens. I don't think there are a lot. Some might be immigrant (farm/factory) workers that eventually became citizens. I read that the largest minority here are Chinese, but that may mean ethnic Koreans--many who moved to China during the Korean war and since wanted to move back. I think if you check the CIA factbook you can find out more information. If you want information about foreigners temporarily residing in Korea, I guess that will probably be difficult to get. You can check embassy sites, but the numbers are always changing even then. Back to top Display posts from previous: All Posts1 Day7 Days2 Weeks1 Month3 Months6 Months1 Year Oldest FirstNewest First Korean Job Discussion Forums Forum Index -> General Discussion Forum All times are GMT - 8 Hours Page 1 of 1 Jump to: Select a forum Forums:----------------FAQJob-related Discussion ForumGeneral Discussion ForumOff-Topic ForumTravel ForumCurrent Events ForumTechnology ForumBuy/Sell/Trade Forum You cannot post new topics in this forumYou cannot reply to topics in this forumYou cannot edit your posts in this forumYou cannot delete your posts in this forumYou cannot vote in polls in this forum This page is maintained by the one and only Dave Sperling. Contact Dave's ESL Cafe Copyright © 2018 Dave Sperling. All Rights Reserved. Powered by phpBB © 2001, 2002 phpBB Group TEFL International Supports Dave's ESL Cafe


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Sun Jul 02, 2017
6:00 pm
Balera Ballroom Dance Studio
editor's note 5/21/17 – unclear if this event is weekly or once/month
This class is open to all levels followed by Social Dance. The focus of this class is to connect learned patterns and make a dance amalgamation per class through the month.
No partner necessary and no prior experience is required.
Drop-in: $15.00 per person (Cash or check only)
6:00pm – 7:30pm 2 Group classes
7:30pm – 8:30pm Social Dance
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Listen to Robert Krestan [and the music of Druha Trava] during a guest appearance on an Olomouc, Czech Republic radio show.
Druha Trava is a lively gaggle of Czech bluegrass enthusiasts, and the Central European...E-shop more
Druha Trava is a wonderfully individual band from the Czech Republic that is hard to describe.
They perform new acoustic world music with bluegrass influences. You might hear them perform a bluegrass tune, Bob Dylan tune or one by another American or British artist, or one of their many originals.
Though they basically use a typical bluegrass complement of instruments, you might see the banjo player also pick up a clarinet or Irish whistle. This along with the versatility of the dobro player helps create much of their unique sound. The Bluegrass Association of the Czech Republic declared Druha Trava "Group of the Year" in both 2005 and 2006.
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